>>44036704>trump winsUnexpected, but not unforeseeable: he was still a major party candidate in a close race. Had he been, say, a Libertarian you'd have a point.
>china winsProbably inevitable
>corona killsMore inevitable than china winning; expanding human population puts us in greater contact with wildlife and increases the odds of a novel pathogen crossing the species boundary and taking off. Hell this isn't even the first corona-type virus scale in my own short lifetime: I distinctly remember everyone being worried about SARS back in 2003.
>biggest stock market drop>biggest unemployment dropWas going to happen eventually, the market was on an unprecedented upswing so we were overdue for another recession
>hot arcticHow long have people been screaming about climate change?
>Australia burnsThey have trees that explode, this was entirely expected to be a worsening problem with climate change
>plague of locustLiterally a thing since biblical times and we still haven't done anything to get rid of them
>sandstorm cloudsDesertification has been a concern for years due to climate change
No one's going to start a second American civil war (this year, at least) because a) they'd be massively outgunned, b) they wouldn't be able to convince entire states to peel away because the divide is urban/rural instead of a simple North/South regional cut, and c) no one has articulated any vision of the future compelling enough to make mass armed rebellion a reasonable process for achieving or avoiding it. Things would have to get much shittier for people to get serious about killing each other to change the course of the nation.
